Gabriel Kotliar
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
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Primary Section: 33, Applied Physical Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 2019)
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Biosketch
Gabriel Kotliar is a theoretical physicist recognized for his contributions to condensed matter physics in general, and to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems. He is known particularly for his development of quantitative methodologies for predicting the unusual properties of these materials Kotliar was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a bachelor?s degree in physics and mathematics in 1979 and a master's degree in physics in 1980. He then earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1983. He was a postdoctoral fellow in physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985 and then moved to Rutgers University, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He has been a Board of Governors Professor of Physics at Rutgers University since 2004 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2001. He also serves as the director of the Center for Material Design and Theoretical Spectroscopy at Brookhaven National Laboratories and Rutgers University, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and an editor of Scholarpedia. He has coauthored over three hundred and fifty publications in refereed journals and been bestowed with numerous fellowships and awards.
Research Interests
Kotliar develops new understanding of the physics of condensed matter, seeking to develop and apply new concepts, new models and new computational and analytic methodologies that will elucidate the emergence of new forms of collective behavior from their microscopic quantum degrees of freedom. His work connects with experimental research to further the exploration of novel material properties and their application to societal needs. Kotliar has pioneered the application of many body-techniques to achieve a realistic description of the spectroscopies of solids. He is one of the inventors of the Dynamical Mean Field Theory, of slave particle techniques, and their combination with electronic structure methods.
